The MeidasTouch Podcast - World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Secretly Begs

Episode Date: March 15, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports how Trump is now begging the same world leaders he is attacking as they run circles around him. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For all of Donald Trump's bluster and bravado and attack on our allies, Donald Trump is now out there begging world leaders who he attacked in Europe and elsewhere for eggs and help. He's sending others to do the begging while he bashes these world leaders in public press conferences. So I'm not exactly sure that's a great strategy. Let me show you what's going down. This from Reuters. How many eggs can you send? The U.S. is currently asking countries abroad, many countries in Europe, especially including Denmark, to help lower the soaring egg prices and the lack of egg supply in the United States. The United States has reached out to Denmark and other European nations asking if they

can please export eggs as Americans are facing surging egg prices, the Nordic countries egg association said on Friday. As Donald Trump is telling Denmark that the United States wants to annex Greenland, which is part of the territory of Denmark. Let me get this straight. The United States is out there begging Denmark to send the United States eggs as America is tariffing Europe 25% on aluminum and steel and trying to crush the economies of Europe and elsewhere. Let me get this straight. Trump sending people to beg. Is that the art of the deal or the

art of the beg, Donald Trump? The article goes on to say, The request from the U.S. Department of Agriculture coincides with a raft of new U.S. tariffs on countries, including in Europe, and the threat of more. Donald Trump has threatened economic sanctions unless Denmark hands over control of Greenland to the United States. U.S. wholesale egg prices are shattering records as an accelerating outbreak of bird flu in laying hen slashes supply. Trump promised to lower egg prices on his first day in office, but prices have increased 59% on a year-on-year basis in February, the first full month of his administration. A letter reviewed by Reuters showed that a representative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Europe had sent formal inquiries to egg producing countries like Denmark in late February,

seeking information on their ability and willingness to export eggs to the American market. The shamelessness, the audacity that Trump administration is begging foreign countries for eggs that it is attacking. Like here was Donald Trump this past week telling the NATO Secretary General how the United States needs to annex Greenland and really wants the help of NATO to go to war, essentially, with a NATO country, Denmark, by annexing Greenland. Play this clip. What is your vision for the potential annexation of Greenland and getting the potential? Yeah, well, I think it'll happen. And I'm just thinking I didn't give it much thought before, but I'm sitting with a man that could be very instrumental. You know,

Mark, we need that for international security, not just security, international. We have a lot of our favorite players cruising around the coast, and we have to be careful. And we'll be talking to you. It's a very appropriate, really a very appropriate question. Thank you very much. The President And it's an issue in the high north, so the Arctic.

So what you did, so when it comes to Greenland, yes, we're not joining the U.S. I would leave that outside for me, this discussion, because I don't want to direct NATO in that. But when it comes to the high north and the Arctic, you are totally right. The Chinese are now using these routes. We know that the Russians are rearming. We know we have a lack of icebreakers.

So the fact that the seven, outside Russia, there are seven Arctic countries working together on this, under U.S. leadership, is very important to make sure that that region, that part of the world stays safe. And we know things are changing there and we have to be there. And just so you can see right here, the chairman of Denmark's defense committee responded to Donald Trump's comments on Greenland in the presence of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutt. Here's what Rasmus Jarlow says. He goes, we do not appreciate the Secretary General of NATO joking with Trump about Greenland like this. It would mean war. Let me repeat that. It would mean war between two NATO countries. Greenland has just voted against immediate independence from Denmark and does not want to be America ever.

Now, let's just fact check that with what we know. And one of the things that just happened is there was an election in Denmark and the results of that election, the kind of center-right pro-business party won, and their new leader is saying that the annexation of Greenland by the United States is never going to happen. Take a look here. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Loke Rasmussen snapped back at Donald Trump's recent comments suggesting that Greenland's latest election results are somehow good for the United States. Danish Foreign Minister to Trump, Greenland's flag can't be painted with stars

and stripes. It goes on to say that Trump somehow claiming this election in Greenland was good for the Trump administration's plan of annexation, quote, is a misinterpretation of Greenlandic elections to conclude that we'll have an independent Greenland tomorrow flying a white flag that can then be painted with stars and stripes, Rasmussen said. The center-right Democrats defeated the governing left-wing coalition in the recent elections. And it goes on to talk about how the winning party's leader, Jens Fredrik Nielsen, said that it ain't happening.

We don't want to be Americans. No, we don't want to be Danes. We want to be Greenlanders and we want our own independence in the future, Nielsen said. And we want to build our own country by ourselves, making it clear, though, we do not want to be part of America and their process for independence from Denmark. They call a very gradual and cautious approach, but they go, we don't want to be part of America and their process for independence from Denmark. They call a very gradual and cautious approach, but they go, we don't want to be a part of the U.S. at all. Stay away. Let's talk about the new prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney, who was sworn in at the

end of last week, an incredible ceremony in Canada. Here is Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada. This sound familiar? Let's play this clip. We will never, ever in any way, shape or form be part of the United States. America is not Canada. Look at the ceremony we just have. You could not have had that ceremony. You would not have that ceremony in America. Look at the cabinet behind me. You would not have that cabinet in America. You do not have that cabinet in America. Look at the cabinet behind me. You would not have that cabinet in America. You do not have that cabinet in America. We are very fundamentally different country. And that follows Donald Trump like a psychopath from the Oval Office earlier this week with

the NATO Secretary of General saying this, play this clip. And to be honest with you, Canada only works as a state. We don't need anything they have. As a state, it would be one of the great states anyway. This would be the most incredible country visually. If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it between Canada and the U.S. Just a straight artificial line. Somebody did it a long time ago, many, many decades ago.

And it makes no sense. It's so perfect as a great and cherished state, keeping O Canada, the national anthem. I love it. I think it's great. Keep it, but it'll be for the state, one of our greatest states. Let's take a look at what's going on in Australia as well as the ambassador to the United States and former prime minister of Australia, Kevin Michael Rudd. He was the 26th prime minister, held office as the leader of the Labor Party in Australia. He was on ABC Australia recently, and he was asked about his approach in negotiations with the Trump regime. I want you to watch this, but I also just want you to see, just in my view, just the kind of calm, thoughtful response here. You'll never see

anybody in the Trump regime ever talk like this. Logical, calm. Here, play this clip. Ambassador Rudd, welcome to 7.30. Good to be back on the program, Sarah. You were meeting with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in the lead up to the announcement on the tariffs. Was he listening to Australia's arguments? Well, I think it's really important, Sarah, just to step back a little bit and understand that the America we're dealing with since the 20th of January is a vastly different America from the past, and in fact, significantly different from the period of Trump 1.0, the first Trump administration. This administration is more nationalist on

questions of foreign policy, more protectionist on trade policy, and much more transactional in its overall approach to international negotiations. We've seen that very much reflected in the way in which the administration's approached these tariff negotiations as well. These are deep-seated fundamental changes in this different America, which every one of the 36 countries who negotiated tariff exemptions on steel and aluminium last time round back in 2017 have had to contend with this time round. You're right to say that with Secretary Lepnick, I've had considerable and ongoing discussions right through the end of last week, in fact, starting a little earlier than that, and through into the early days of this week. These have been straightforward, hard, direct, and I think the Secretary understands full well Australia's negotiating position, which is we are long-standing free trade partners

with the United States. We impose zero tariffs against any American export. We've never had a trade surplus with America. And on top of that, America has a two-to-one surplus against us. Those arguments, at this stage at least, have not prevailed. What was the atmosphere like in the room during those meetings? Well remember these Lutnick negotiations as Secretary of Commerce have come on the back of a whole process kicked off by the Prime Minister's conversations with the President on the telephone, the day after he got elected and again last month in February where he laid out the framework for our negotiations on tariffs and trade.

And since then we've had a series of negotiations involving Ministers Wong, Minister Chalmers, the Treasurer.